Missile stockpiles must cover repeated reloads

How many missiles should a navy stock and produce for a peer conflict?

Repeated magazine depletion could require roughly thirty reloads for a Type 45-scale 48-cell load during a year of intense combat.

The starting magazine is only the first line of a peer-war requirement. A ship might empty its cells every week or two, then need another complete load. For a 48-cell Type 45-scale magazine, roughly thirty reloads provide a year's planning illustration and produce a notional requirement of 1,440 missiles for that vessel alone. Mixed weapons and quad-packed cells would change the composition, but not the need to plan repeated replenishment. The example turns VLS capacity into a problem of stockpiles, production, and reload logistics across sustained combat.